Gabriel Zucman
Gabriel Zucman, born in Paris in 1986, is a professor of Economics at Paris School of Economics and Ecole Normale Supérieure and associate professor of Economics (with tenure) at UC Berkeley. Since 2021, he is also the director of the EU Tax Observatory.
He is the author of articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics. His research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and taxation of global wealth and has renewed the analysis of the macroeconomic and distributional implications of globalization.
With the members of the World Inequality Lab, he has developed prototype distributional national accounts, statistics that decompose macroeconomic growth by social group. With Emmanuel Saez, he has constructed long-run series on the distribution of US wealth and with Thomas Piketty (also member of ICRICT) he has studied inequality in China, Russia, and the long-run accumulation of capital in rich countries back to 1700. The results are made available on the World Inequality Database (WID.world).
He is also the author of the international best-seller The Hidden Wealth of Nations, and The Triumph of Injustice, written with Emmanuel Saez, which presents an analysis of the progressivity of the US tax system taking into account all taxes at all levels of government, since the creation of the income tax in 1913.
His research papers, data, programs, as well as broader-audience articles, are available online at gabriel-zucman.eu.
Follow him on @gabriel_zucman